Charlotta Öberg known as Lotta Öberg, was a Swedish poet.

Born in poverty as the child of a lumberman and a cleaning woman, she was not able to work for a living because of her bad health. She educated herself by reading the school books of a neighbour's son. Her poems were read at the salon

Salon (gathering)

A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to...

 of a rich woman, for whom her mother worked, which made her discovered. She was placed in a pension by count Gustaf af Wetterstedt

Gustaf af Wetterstedt

Count Gustaf af Wetterstedt was a Swedish statesman. He served as the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1824 to 1837. In 1811 he was elected into the Swedish Academy, and later he also became a member of the Royal Swedish Academies of Agriculture, Music and Sciences...

, and her career was financed by rich people.

Between 1834 and 1841, she published the collection Lyriska dikter (Lyrical Poems) which was given the assessment: They [her poems]give witness of a deep and warm emotion, which in a simple, innocent and touching way reminds of the tones from the great poets, from which she was inspired. Her death was reported in the press.